Gordon is off doing a flying visit to India, Pakistan and Afghanistan doling out millions to people who would rather the British were not there. Gordon loves being photographed with men in uniform, they however are not so keen on him. The ARRSE site is an online forum for soldiers, here are some excerpts from the site today:

At the bottom of the awful man’s black heart, I’ll wager he doesn’t give a stuff about casualties in Afghanistan. He’ll be calculating the costs, not in lives, but in pounds Sterling.

He was the worst Chancellor possibly ever, he has brought this nation to it’s knees and now he has the gall, the brass-necked affrontery to parade about bragging that he is ‘saving the world’. Will the men in white-coats be able to get into Downing Street, with the politically controlled ‘Met Police Farce’ at the gates?lsquared

FFS, who goes into the bloody wilds of the Stan in a bloody suit and tie? Does he never take the bloody thing off?mnairb

100 groats and his pick of the wenches to the man who rid’s us of Jonah McGabe.insert-coin-here

How do the lads he talks to, do it with a straight face? I mean I know there’s discipline and good manners, but honestly…angular